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Sep 9 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Groq just announced Compound is now generally available to everyone.
The chief architect is not who you might expect.
It is a Stanford sophomore who went from viral GitHub apps to leading Groq's agent product in under a year.
This is the story of how @benklieger built the most exciting agentic architecture available today. 🧵2/ Ben’s journey to Compound started early.
In school, he spent his time building. Social platforms and trade tools, experiments that taught him a deeper truth: The most intelligent systems are defined by making the right decisions at the right time.
Aug 19 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
This solo founder taught himself how to code last year. Now his open-source writing platform is taking on Google Docs, Substack & TipTap, powered by Groq.
This is the story of William Loveday Powell and how he built Snow Leopard. 🧵👇 2/ One year ago, Will wasn’t a coder. He learned React, TypeScript and Next.js using AI tools, not for a job but to fix what felt broken.
The first thing he wanted to fix was writing.
Aug 4 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
These two founders took on the $350B call center industry with a voice agent built using open-source tools. No budget. No headcount. No excuses.
What started as a quick fix for a parent’s small business, now handles 100K+ real calls per month.
This is the story of @phonely_ai, and how Will Bodewes and Nisal Ranasinghe built what every big player said was impossible.
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Will and Nisal were deep into AI research, each pursuing a PhD in Australia, when Will’s dad called with a real-world problem:
“I’m losing customers. I can’t hire enough receptionists. Everyone calls at once, and no one picks up.”
So they did what most wouldn’t. They built the solution themselves.
Jun 30 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
This solo founder built an open-source competitor to Perplexity with no team, no funding, and no permission.
What started as a weekend project now powers over 1M searches, with 60K+ monthly users.
This is the story of @sciraai and how Zaid Mukaddam built what others wouldn’t.
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Like many great dev stories, it started with frustration.
Zaid wanted a better way to search across the web using AI. Something fast, clean, and customizable.
Perplexity was powerful, but felt closed and out of reach. So he started building.
Jun 19 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
This student-built AI startup hit 50K users while its founders were still cramming for midterms. No funding. No fancy titles. Just conviction and code.
This is the story of Opennote, a tool to rethink how students learn. Built from need. Powered by Groq.
🧵👇 2/ It started like most good dev projects: frustration.
Abhi Arya, Rishi Srihari, and Vedant Vyas were undergrad students stuck in passive lectures, rewatching videos that didn’t help much.
They weren’t trying to launch a company. They just wanted to understand the material—and thought they could build something better.
Apr 15 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Now in preview – Compound Beta, our first compound AI system on GroqCloud that can search the web and execute code 🔥 More in 🧵
1/4 Build with access to the internet and the ability to run code with a one line change to your model string.
